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Twitter and Tear Gas

Zeynep Tufekci

first of all, this is a really excellent book, and Tufekci is a genius

networked protests can organize faster than ever before

the civil rights movement took years of planning, Rosa Parks protest was heavily orchestrated and planned. But this also meant the march on washington was such an achievement that it was more meaningful, and indicated more organizing power to the decision-making authorities

although everything has advantages, makes murder or intimidation of a leader to ‘sell-out’ much more difficult

Emile Durkheim’s 'collective effervescence’, a transcendent feeling applies to these leaderlesse protests, people want to join even if they’d get same social goals without participating because it’s thrilling to be a part of the protest

why protests always have a library: represents free knowledge, many drawn to camps because alienated as consumer

example bloody torture and execution of king-murderer in France and quiet labor camp in France less than 100 years apart

people now find public torture, execution, and in general punishments to the body to be digusting

this now means punishment “will tend to become the most hidden part of the penal process” and since it’s now just an abstract idea that happens away from courts behind closed doors, those who carry out punishment are no longer publicly accountable.

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Part 4

Other Favorites

The Castle by Kafka

The Library of Babel by Borges (and of course, the incredible https://libraryofbabel.info/)

Snow Crash by Stephenson

Hegarty on Creativity: There are No Rules

Reading Queue

Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow’s Customers